What made Alexander great.(BOOKS)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: January 16, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Blake D. Dvorak, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

It's a shame that Oliver Stone couldn't have made a better movie about history's greatest world conqueror, Alexander the Great. Shameful because, as actor Colin Farrell, who plays Alexander in the film, dryly noted, his life has all the qualities of "bad fiction."

If you haven't seen the movie - and judging by its quick departure from the theaters, you haven't - Alexander's life is simplicity cast on a global scale. The death of his father, the king of Macedon, when Alexander was just 20, left the young man heir not ...

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